Newt Gingrich<\/a>, who vows to keep going, saw an opening.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushMediaMontageFeb22012.jpg\"\/)
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GINGRICH: I am running to be the president of all the American people.<\/p>\n
MUIR: While flying across the country today, the Governor shot back at any notion he dismissed the poor. He again said if the safety net has holes in it, he would work to repair them.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That… (sigh) Well, I\u2019m being repetitive. That misses the whole point on the safety net as well. But from the conservative standpoint, which is the American standpoint, which is the compassionate standpoint, which is the loving-opportunity standpoint. On CBS This Morning today, I have a portion here of the political correspondent Jan Crawford and her report about Romney\u2019s remark that he\u2019s not concerned about the poor.<\/p>\n
CRAWFORD: Opponents on the left jumped on it saying it shows Romney is out of touch, just as radio host Rush Limbaugh predicted.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: Now, everybody knows what he\u2019s trying to say, but he didn\u2019t say it. He makes himself a target with this stuff. He comes across as the prototypical rich Republican. It\u2019s gonna make it harder and harder and harder to go after Obama.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They love that “prototypical rich Republican” assessment. They all used it out there in the Drive-By Media. Last night on CNN\u2019s The Situation Room, here is the giddy Dana Bash — who, by the way, is married to the reporter John King. Just a little gossip for you. Well, it\u2019s not gossip. It\u2019s true. Dana Bash and John King are husband and wife, joined in matrimony. I think on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. I\u2019m not sure. Not that it matters, but here is her report — and you can hear she\u2019s giddy.<\/p>\n
BASH: (giddily) The National Review asked, “What\u2019s wrong with this guy?” And on conservative radio, Rush Limbaugh said, “He comes across as the prototypical rich Republican.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: National Review, they\u2019ve been all-in for Romney for a while. So they probably were a little disjointed about this. Maybe scratching their heads, going, “Oh, gee.” But not just them. Not just National Review. Last night on The Last Word on PMSNBC, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell and the Huffing and Puffington Post editorial director Howard Fineman (fresh from the cockfights he said he watched in South Carolina) had a discussion about Romney and his remark about the poor. Lawrence O\u2019Donnell said, “Howard, I don\u2019t believe we\u2019ve had a Republican president in our past who would be flat-footed enough to be caught saying, ‘I don\u2019t care about poor people.\u2019 Romney doesn\u2019t seem to understand what the Republican talking points are when faced with questions like this.”<\/p>\n
FINEMAN: What the Republicans have tried to do over the last generation with people like the late Jack Kemp and others is to argue that they — meaning the Republicans and the conservatives and the free market — have a better answer for the problems of the poor than the Democrats do. This is what Rush Limbaugh was partly upset about. He was defending Newt, but he was also upset about the idea that Mitt Romney\u2019s actually accepting the safety net. He\u2019s sort of saying, “Well, yeah, for the poor people we have the Democratic policies and let them have their thing.” So it couldn\u2019t have been worse in any conceivable direction for Romney, and the — the Romney people are quite defensive about it, justifiably, tonight.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Same show, MSNBC last night, Howard Dean… (interruption) What are you are frowning at? (interruption) That\u2019s a good point. I wasn\u2019t “defending Newt.” Not in this. I don\u2019t think… Look, I said a lot of words yesterday. I don\u2019t remember everything I said, but I don\u2019t think I even associated any of this with the Newtster. At any rate, a minor point. Howard Dean, Last Word, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell. After he plays the clip of me saying our team is not all that good; you know it and I know it, they\u2019re just not — which I did say yesterday. I did say talking about the remaining field. O\u2019Donnell said, “Honesty breaking out on the Rush Limbaugh Show today, Howard. That\u2019s how bad it\u2019s gotten for the Republicans.”<\/p>\n
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DEAN: That\u2019s not somethin\u2019 y\u2019hear!<\/line><\/p>\n
O\u2019DONNELL: (snickering)<\/p>\n
DEAN: Look, these guys have a problem because the idea was to run against Obama and make Obama the issue. The Obama campaign is incredible. Uhhh, they\u2019ve been on a roll since the jobs speech before Labor Day and you\u2019re just not gonna grind them down. And the issue of this campaign is, “Can you trust the Republicans?” That is a terrible issue for the Republican Party. But that\u2019s the issue. The issue is: Can you trust to (sic) the Republican —<\/p>\n
O\u2019DONNELL: No.<\/p>\n
DEAN: — who got us into this in the first place, to get us out?<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s irrelevant. That has nothing to do with what this is about. But this is what happens when you give them this opportunity. Here\u2019s Howard Dean rolling on and on, “Can you trust the Republicans. That\u2019s a terrible issue. The issue is can you trust the Republicans who got us into this in the first place.” It\u2019s not at all what this is about, but there they go running with it. And we go to the Morning Joe show, Scarborough on MSNBC this morning. Here is Mika Brzezinski.<\/p>\n
BRZEZINSKI: Rush Limbaugh offered his take as well.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: “I\u2019m not worried about the poor. We got a safety net.” The safety net is one of the biggest cultural problems we\u2019ve got. The safety net is contributing to the destruction of their humanity and their futures. Everybody knows what he\u2019s trying to say, but he didn\u2019t say it, and he makes himself a target with this stuff. He comes across as the prototypical rich Republican. All these wizards of smart in the Republican establishment, “We can\u2019t have Newt out there, why, Newt\u2019s gonna be the topic. We need Obama be the topic.” What evidence is there that it\u2019s not gonna be about Romney with these kinds of statements? <\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s what Howard Fineman heard. What I was saying was, that the Republican establishment was saying we can\u2019t have Newt or anybody but Romney, because Newt, Newt\u2019s so bad, he\u2019s so bellicose, he\u2019s so bombastic. He says so many crazy things, that Newt\u2019s gonna end up being the issue. We don\u2019t want Newt. We want Obama to be the issue. And now look what\u2019s happened. Romney, for two straight days now, is the issue. And I was just making the point that the establishment doesn\u2019t know what it\u2019s talking about when they talk about only Romney\u2019s electable and the campaign will only be about Obama if Romney is the nominee. Our nominee could be Mother Teresa and by the time they got through with her she\u2019d be a prostitute with 15 illegitimate kids. It doesn\u2019t matter who our nominee is; they\u2019re gonna be all over it. <\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna make our nominee the issue because they can\u2019t defend theirs. Their nominee\u2019s record is something they\u2019ve got to hide. They can\u2019t run on it. Everybody knows all the Democrats can do is to rip our nominee apart, tear our nominee to shreds. Opposition research. And they\u2019ve said that that\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna do. They\u2019re gonna go after character. They\u2019re gonna go after policy. They\u2019re gonna go after everything, and yet our wizards of smart are sitting up there saying, “Well, if we nominate Romney, they can\u2019t go after Romney, that way we\u2019ll be able to make Obama the issue.” Yeah, right. Not going to work out that way. Joe Scarborough, on his own eponymous show, then decided to reply to Mika Brzezinski.<\/p>\n
SCARBOROUGH: That\u2019s actually the point of the day. We\u2019ve been hearing all along that, oh, if you nominate Newt it\u2019s gonna be about Newt. And yes, if you nominate Newt, it is gonna be all about Newt. But the idea was that you could turn the focus on Obama if you put Romney in there. But I\u2019m telling you with every one of these gaffes — I\u2019m not kicking Mitt Romney when he\u2019s down. I\u2019m just saying for me, as a conservative, even, I\u2019m concerned when I hear somebody say, “I\u2019m not focused or concerned about the very poor.” There\u2019s a disconnect there.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, it\u2019s not a disconnect. See, everybody knows what Romney was trying to do. These guys all know. Every one of these critics out there knows that Romney was trying — let me tell you what he was trying to say. I\u2019ll give you the words. I\u2019m Mitt Romney, and I know you in the middle class are the backbone of this country, and nobody is paying any attention to how you\u2019re suffering and nobody is looking out for you and I\u2019m the guy that\u2019s going to. I understand who makes this country great, I understand who makes this country work. It\u2019s not the rich. You in the middle class are the targets of every one of these policies Obama has come up with. You\u2019re the ones whose homes are underwater and you\u2019re the ones that can\u2019t make your mortgage payments. You\u2019re the ones who can\u2019t find work, I understand, and I\u2019m here for you. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s what he wanted to say. That\u2019s what he thought he did say with that comment. But he didn\u2019t say that. We all know. But you don\u2019t get the benefit of the doubt. You don\u2019t get, “Well, okay, we know what he meant to say,” and then people correct for it. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: We\u2019re up to number 11, and we\u2019re sticking with the Scarborough show. The Drive-Bys went nuts with my assessment of Mitt Romney\u2019s statement that, (paraphrasing) “Don\u2019t worry about the poor, they got a safety net. I\u2019ll fix it if it breaks. I\u2019m worried about the middle class.” Heilemann is the national affairs editor at New York Magazine. He\u2019s on Scarborough\u2019s show. Scarborough said, “Look, Romney ran a powerful company. A lot of our children are not gonna have to worry as much as I know some of us here had to worry growing up.” Joe, this is where, God love you, we\u2019re all going to have to worry, even us rich people in the media, Joe. Everybody\u2019s going to have to worry. Well, Joe said that he\u2019s not gonna have to worry, his children are gonna have to worry, but a lot of other people — Joe, no fortune is safe. <\/p>\n
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I mean if this bunch is out of money, where are they gonna go to get some? They have to go to the people who\u2019ve got it, and that includes you. This notion that people who\u2019ve made it, make it forever, not true. People fall out of and jump back in all the different income quintiles. Nobody\u2019s income or financial status is the same their entire life. And once you\u2019ve made it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re not gonna lose it all. And it doesn\u2019t mean an aggressive government can\u2019t try to come take it from you. It\u2019s what many people fear. But, anyway, Joe said, “Romney ran a powerful company. A lot of our children, John, we\u2019re not gonna have to worry as much as I know some of us here had to worry growing up. Am I gonna be able to take care of my family? Am I gonna be able to go to a good school? There\u2019s a disconnect here that\u2019s really troubling, because a lot of Americans are not gonna be able to answer ‘yes\u2019 to those questions where you and I can.”<\/line><\/p>\n
HEILEMANN: Rush says it makes it easier for you to paint a picture of him as a prototypical rich Republican. People start to wonder, well, maybe he is just a prototypical rich Republican. Joe, you remember back when Jack Kemp was a major figure in national Republican politics. A very conservative guy. These kinds of things would never have come out of Jack Kemp\u2019s mouth because Jack Kemp was really concerned about the very poor. Jack Kemp was trying to figure out a way, in an active way all the time. And there were other Republicans, but I\u2019m gonna single out him because he was a Republican vice presidential nominee in 1996. He made a big part of his conservative agenda, how do we use conservative tools to help the worst off? <\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, conservatism is the way out of poverty. You don\u2019t need special conservative tools. Conservatism is. But whether you say prototypical or stereotypical, the point is the media has concocted a false image of rich Republicans. The truly dastardly wealthy today are Democrats. There are far more of them. The true evil, mean-spirited, don\u2019t care about people rich, is the Democrats. They don\u2019t use their own money for anything. They give very little to charity. My problem with what Romney did is it feeds the stereotype. Rich Republican who doesn\u2019t relate to or understand or care about the poor. It was a gaffe in that regard. Scarborough replied to Heilemann.<\/p>\n
SCARBOROUGH: Conservatives aren\u2019t bashing the media here. It\u2019s Rush Limbaugh. You\u2019re talking about the most influential conservative saying Mitt Romney is really making our job a lot harder.<\/p>\n
GEIST: Conservatives got an opening, too, with the content of what he said. They weren\u2019t worried about him saying “I\u2019m not concerned about the poor;” they were worried about him saying, “We need to strengthen the social net.” They went, “No, no, no, no. That\u2019s not the answer.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. The social safety net has been proven to be a failure. Once people fall into that net, they don\u2019t get out of that. That net swallows \u2019em up. It becomes a hammock, as it was designed. That safety net was not designed with compassion. That was what they said it was for. Oh, yeah, it\u2019s always that we care for the poor. If you really help the poor you teach \u2019em how not to be. And there\u2019s a word for this called a job. You go out and say that now and you get a cynical reaction, “Oh, yeah, easy for you to say.” Well, what if we all said a job is something cynical that\u2019s not worth having? It\u2019s just ridiculous. F. Chuck Todd was out there on the same show and Willie Geist, the last guy you heard speaking, said, “What happens here, I think a lot of Republicans have come to the point where they say, ‘Okay, this is Mitt Romney. This is the guy.\u2019 At some point there\u2019s a pattern. How do they deal with this guy going forward?”<\/p>\n
TODD: They were hoping to run as the successful businessman, and, you know, part of this has been the pressure that the Obama campaign\u2019s also been trying to put on Romney of trying to paint him as a caricature of a successful businessman that wasn\u2019t really involved in the job creation process, was more involved in this idea of creative destruction, Wall Street capitalism versus Main Street capitalism. And I think that that pressure\u2019s gotten to the Romney campaign a little bit.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, maybe, perhaps. But that\u2019s not what\u2019s going on here. What\u2019s going on here is that a root level of understanding doesn\u2019t exist. The root level understanding conservatism doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s all this is. I, from the get-go, said, the way to do this, the way to overcome the fact that media is gonna be going after our nominee, whoever it is, just stick to conservatism, particularly given what we\u2019re up against, the contrast is dynamic. But the establishment Republicans just don\u2019t like conservatism. They don\u2019t like conservatives, except on Election Day every four years. <\/p>\n
So on Daily Rundown on MSNBC (this is F. Chuck Todd\u2019s show that comes on after Scarborough), they had political editor from Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Josh Green, on to talk about Romney\u2019s remark, and F. Chuck said, “Hey, Josh, are we seeing Rush Limbaugh is right? The idea that Romney wouldn\u2019t be a focus in a general election like Newt would be? I don\u2019t know. Maybe he\u2019s right. Romney could be just as much of an issue as Newt.” There\u2019s F. Chuck saying: You know, Republicans might be wrong. They think only Newt would be the issue? Maybe Romney could end up being an issue, too. What do you think about that, Josh?<\/p>\n
GREEN: Absolutely. And whoever the Republican candidate is is gonna be pilloried for whatever their weaknesses are. You know, Newt would be explosive. You know, temperament anger unsteadiness. For Romney, it\u2019s obviously gonna be this profile of kind of an uncaring, out-of-touch, rich guy, “vulture capitalist.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Last night in Minneapolis on local news, Romney said this while apologizing for his remark on CNN that he\u2019s not concerned about the poor. This is what he said…<\/line><\/p>\n
ROMNEY: Sometimes things don\u2019t come out exactly the way you\u2019d like them to. That\u2019s not exactly what I meant to say. My focus is on middle-income Americans. We do have a safety net for the very poor. And I said if there are holes in it, I want to correct that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (sigh) Okay. We know what he was trying to say. All these critics on the left that are on harping on the out-of-touch line know exactly what he was trying to say. But it\u2019s easy for them to ignore what he\u2019s trying to say. If he was Obama, if they were sympathetic, they\u2019d give him the benefit of the doubt and this wouldn\u2019t be a story. But since it\u2019s an opportunity to nail conservatives, they\u2019ll take the out-of-context meaning and run with it and then run every other comment by me and other people that have been forthcoming. “Holes in the safety net. Yeah, I want to fix it.” That means take care of the holes and maintain the safety net. Look, I\u2019m getting blue in the face. I\u2019m not gonna repeat myself. You know what I\u2019ve said about it over and over. Let\u2019s just keep going with Newt responding to Romney.<\/p>\n
GINGRICH: Let me say something here. I am fed up with politicians in either party dividing Americans against each other.<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: (smattering of cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
GINGRICH: I am running to be the president of all the American people, and I am concerned about all of the American people.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That was yesterday in Reno, Nevada, and Newt trying to say, “Look, I don\u2019t look at people in the safety net, not in the safety net, rich, poor, middle class. I\u2019m gonna be president for everybody.” That\u2019s the way he is trying to make hay out of this. Here\u2019s Krauthammer from Krauthammer Review Online. He was on Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier last night.<\/p>\n
KRAUTHAMMER: This is bad. It\u2019s not just that the day after the win in Florida. The real problem here is that it shows he doesn\u2019t have a fluency with conservative ideas. Conservatives are not the ones who either engage in the war of the classes or in a division of America into classes. Obama, the Democrats will win that kind of argument every day. The moral case for conservative economics is that our policies are gonna help everybody, including the poor. The idea that somehow we consign the poor to the safety net and we patch it and dependency is a liberal idea it\u2019s not our idea. And Romney is a guy who came late to his new ideology and he still can\u2019t speak it very well.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s pretty true. He came late to conservatism and can\u2019t speak it pretty well. It\u2019s like learning a foreign language. That\u2019s what Krauthammer is saying. Mark McKinnon ran Bush\u2019s media operation in 2000-2004. He started a group called No Labels, basically a bunch of moderate-to-liberal Republicans who didn\u2019t like being tied to conservatives and didn\u2019t like being associated with conservatives and labeled as such. So they start this new group out there, “No Labels,” which is, “Look, we\u2019re bigger than labels. We\u2019re moderates! We\u2019re mainstreamers. We\u2019re the really smart people. We don\u2019t like these labels,” and that\u2019s just who McKinnon is. McKinnon was on Larry Kudlow on CNBC last night. Kudlow said, “They\u2019re all saying Romney doesn\u2019t care about poor people. What do you think about that, utter nonsense or what?”<\/p>\n
MCKINNON: I think his instincts were to try and get a message that\u2019s designed to the middle class, which the — President Obama is successfully getting a lot of traction with. So the instinct was right; the execution was just bad. And that\u2019s where I think this long, drawn-out primary is, in many ways, problematic. Because we\u2019re seeing independents turning against Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s it! If the independents are turning against Romney, it\u2019s all lost, you see? If we lose the independents it\u2019s all lost. (laughing) He\u2019s going to lose conservatives! “If we lose the independents… The execution was bad; the instinct was right.” So what we\u2019re hearing is we gotta shut down these campaigns. We gotta stop the debates. We gotta shorten these campaigns so that our guy doesn\u2019t talk as much because it\u2019s a danger when he talks this much. I don\u2019t know, folks. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know it\u2019s all about reflexes. This Romney thing, it\u2019s all about reflexes — and it pains me to say this stuff. This show has not been easy. You don\u2019t… Well, maybe you do know, but he just doesn\u2019t have conservative reflexes. It\u2019s like trying to learn golf late in life: The reflexes just aren\u2019t there. You\u2019ve got to have a foundation, a basic understanding to have the reflexes, and they just aren\u2019t there. And I don\u2019t know if he can learn \u2019em. We will find out.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: James Carville last night was on Anderson Cooper 291 spoke with Anderson Cooper about Romney. And Cooper said, “So you have 24 hours distance on it now. Romney goes out, says this stuff 24 hours after his win in Florida. How do you look at his victory now?”<\/line><\/p>\n
CARVILLE: The problem a Mitt Romney has, he just is not that good a candidate. The guy is not good on his feet. Politically, he comes across as some kind of a detached doofus. You look at the — the comments today among conservatives, you look at the concern. And he always conforms… He — he has a — a stereotype whether it\u2019s acc\u2019rate or not that he is this kinda out-of-touch guy. That\u2019s why I said politically he comes across as a detached doofus. And this comment today just feeds into a perception there is about him. He\u2019s just not that good on his feet.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, does somebody want to tell me the Democrats are not looking forward to running against Romney? You notice that Carville gave himself the option there to call him “a detached doofus” twice in a 36-second sound bite? As if Obama does not come across as detached. There\u2019s nobody more detached from reality than “Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm!” And there\u2019s no bigger doofus than Barack Hussein Obama. No bigger doofus and nobody more detached and nobody could be more wrong about things than “Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm!” And here is our wonderful Republican establishment: We can\u2019t have Newt, man! They\u2019re gonna make the campaign about him.”<\/p>\n
You know the Democrats are working on bumper stickers now: “Detached doofus.” They\u2019re gonna have a picture of Mitt Romney with needle and thread sewing up the safety net. I can just see it. It\u2019s gonna be an ad. There\u2019s gonna be an ad. There\u2019s gonna be a caricature of Romney and he\u2019ll be, you know, crocheting a safety net with a bunch of poor people bouncing up and down in it. “Detached doofus says, ‘I don\u2019t care about the poor.'” The establishment says, “Yeah, that\u2019s right! That\u2019s right! If Newt had been the nominee look what the campaign would have been about.” Moon colonies! (laughing) I know, the 51st state. Find the first 13,000 American suckers to move up there and we\u2019ll call it the 51st state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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